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Page Two THE CLINTON CHRONICLE irapr "»•"**— Tlnirsdoy, June 21, 1945 NEWS OF . MEN IN Attorney General FIRST SGT. EDGAR B. NORTON ; of Clinton, was among the 500 South! Carolinian's of the 86th Infantry di- ! vision troops which landed at Camp i Kilmer,' N. J., on Sunday from Eu rope. *• ; '' | T-5 JOSEPH DIXQN, of 1his r cityf, j arrived at platen Island, New York. ! Monday on the transport James G.! Blaine w^h 366 other veterans eli-'! -pible for "discharge under the army’s; 85-point merit system, and disem barked for transfer to Camp Kilmer, • N. J. The Blaine arrived ./from Le | Havre, France. . j Dixon is expected home in the next | lew days. He has served overseas 20 j months as an artilleryman with tite 66th Division. He received the Silver/ Star and five battle stars , for the | North' African, Sicily and Southern! France invasions. Word has been received by Mr.! and Mrs. S. A. Pitts from their son.; STERLING, that he has arrived; safelv overseas in the South Pacific , Thomas Campbell Clark, 45, of Texas, former assistant attorney general in charge of the crim inal division of the department of justice, who has been named by President Truman to succeed Fran cis Biddle as attorney general. : 'REDEPLOYMENT' IS i LATEST m PROBLEM O Troop Shift To Pacific To Tax Capacity of Transport Lines. : Literally rolling up their sleeves and hitching , up their belts, both the | army and transportation- companies j of the U. S. harve undertaken the i l huge task of shifting men and ma terial from Europe to the Pacfiicii ■ - ■ . . | I through this country in the least time possible for bringing the full j i'f;!!,,:. . ■ ■ - Y.f.w, . jweight of American arms to bear • against the Japs. , T I Known as “redeployment,’* the | program calls for the return of some j 3,100,000 troops and hundreds of I I ttou&andsT/of tons of material within j | raftie%nont,hl of ViE day, with 845,000 ; i fnen a ^ftg tfiapsferred during the i i first three months; 1,185,000 during | | the next three, and 807,000 during They’re Going Home Pvt Herman Nabors, Former German Prisoner; On Visit To Mother 1942, he had been confined in a Ger man prison camp until his liberation [a few weeks ago and return to the U. S. army. He was attached to an ; infantry outfit when captured by the i Germans. Pvt. Herman Nabors, who until re-1 + cently was a prisoner of the German, SARDIS CHURCH SERVICES |, government arrived Tuesday'for a! The wor - shj service5 at Sard , s ! leave w.th h.s mother Wy Methodist church. Renno, will be Nabors, until August 15 He landed, d fourth Sun _ in New York recently and from there d a i ternoons at 4 O . clocki Rev . j. went to Kilmer, N. J., and on to; Fort Bragg, N. C. j.H.! Kohler states. Pvt. Nabors has been in the ser- i LOOSE LEAF BINDERS for business vice four years, three years of the! checks. Economical, handy and time overseas. Since February 17,1 easy to use. Chronicle Pub. Co. ~i : ! : ; r CASINO THEATRE Part of the contingent of dough boys who arrived from Europe at Camp Kilmer, whence they will leave for home on furlough, and then to the Pacific to finish the Japs. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, June 22 and 23 £,INT!L£ A AW Jr JAMES and is getting along fine. here and r,ela- CRAIG • REED • MAIN L tan M-G-M ncruReJT'^JS^™ Feature Begins: the last three. ;.. , .. Because of 'the tremendous nature | lieve passenger congestion * felt of the project,. and the need for for the last tew y ears - maintaining ordinary shipments for' Simultaneous with the transfer of SGT JAMES C PACE, former tives in Greenwood. ' occupation forces ; in Europe and ad* i ^ 4:2 Q t 7:33f g . 2 6 Clinton resident, is a pitching ace fw . C pl, Taylor kas been in the ' army t ^aUrlads the 1 ” rc’V : tou » r ’ y e . arSi !he past 32. themselves confronted . . .. . 1 V K . ■ e ! l> \\ ■ , . .. . *r » ’ hlonths he has been on overseas duty m ost complex traffic situations ’ the U. S. At V-E day, American arm- ‘ i " a, < ! ‘ >L ''* 1 c v, 1 'pTm T Gen. Hodges IsW Army head-; i n th e i r long-, history. Already they j ibs'had more than 5,500,000 tons of 'cr'e-mt oY'^he^xist miUtun’ police' c,uart ^ rs- ! ■< j-haVe put'out a call for thousands of j supplies on the continent, including THE BROADWAY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, June 22 and 23 NEWS. 9c and 35c Jackson. Mrs. Taylor and small son have additional employees such as clerks, 1 700,000 tons of ammunition and more .been making their home here while stenographers, brakemen, condlic- 1 than 1,000,000 separate items, rang-j ^ Lt. Taylor has been in the servic 6 - 1 tors, engineers, firemen, switchmen,; ing from locomotives to watch repair Word has been received b> Mi. and Before marriage she was Miss Lilliani blacksmiths, carpenters, mchinists, 1 tools. j Mr.'. Charlton D. Benjamin that then Burns Browning of this city. freight handlers, crossing watchmen Germany’s surrender • saw U. S. son. PVT. C D. BENJAMIN. JR., has ——— | and regular track gangmen. arrived in the States from overseas. CORP. FRED SHELTON, who hasj During the peak of withdrawal duty and will receive an honorable [jee^ on a visit here, has been trans-.i from Europe, approximately' 500,000 MONDAY AND TUESDAY, June 25 and 26 discharge during the next few days | ferred t0 Fort Ord, Capf: under the point system. Pvt. Benja min has been attached to the 577th Replacement company and was among the first group of Clinton boys entering the service. ■ — PVT. ISAAC D. STONE, of this! city, has been cited by the 349th; FINALE STAGED ALONG OKINAWA TIP i men will be shifted to the U. S., it ; is estimated/without * about 56,000 i carried by air and the rest by water. ; American troopships not required in | the Pacific along with British trans- | ports and more than 400 reconverted :_cargo vessels thus will will .move the brunt of the men. Germany’s forces with 3,000,000 small arms, 11,000 medium and light artillery pieces, 350,000 automatic weapons and mortars, 62,000 combat vehicles and 371,000 other motorized units. , . Despite all of the careful prepara- | With GREGORY PECK, THOM- tion for redeployment, the movement,AS MITCHELL, VINCENT PRICE, will tax the facilities pf the American | ROSA STRADNER, and RODDY It’s a heart-warming biography of an heroic priest—heroic in his devo tion and self-sacrifice to the humble and oppressed. It’s new—it’s differ- Guam, June 20.— The 10th armyii The capture of usable enemy ship- Krautkiller regiment of the backed the last 2.000 or more Japa- ping will help to speed up the with- Army’s 88th “Blue Devil division - > - • ■ - - - nese into tiny, isolated pockets onj drawal by as much as 60,000 during and awarded the Combat Infantry- the sout ^ ern t i p 0 f Okinawa today, j the second three month period arid mans badge for actual participation^ al v i c t 0 fy was at hand. . ! 117,000 during the last quarter, it is Scores of the trapped enemy leaped in combat against the enemy in Italy. Standards for the badge are high. , The decoration is awarded to the to their deaths trom the southern infantry soldier who has proved his ;cil h s - Others were surrendering in fighting ability in combat. ! such; numbers that no <. ceura e coun Pvt. Stone is attached to the Fifth j could be kept. Even more were being Army. His wife, Mrs. Made C. Stone, ; s ^ a * n * n their caves and foxholes is making her home here during his, “We’ve got them on the run absence. said Lt. Col. John G. Johnson, — Champaign, III, commander of railroad industry. For one thing, fewer rail lines ser vice the West coast than the heavily industrialized East, and it is estimat ed that monthly traffic to the area will\ rise from the present 148,000 cars \>173^000. Further, when war shipping"'vraJ reach its peak in late summer and\ early fall, the carriers estimated, with time needed to re convert the vessels for troop service; will have /f 0 d i ve rt thousands of impeding their immediate utilization, j height cars to move the wheat har- Once the hundreds of thousands; vest And, finally, substantial sup- of G. Ts start pouring into American; plies stin wi ii have to be hauled to ports, and substantial quantities of E as t coast ports for delivery to occu- McDOWELL. Feature begins 2:00, 4:32, 7:04, 9:36. NEWS. 9c and 35c 10 A. M. Show MONDAY. Western thrills with action for those who like it. With SUNSET CARSON and LINDA STIRLING. ^ Feature Begins: Friday: 2:24, 4:52. 7:20, 9:48. Saturday: 1:30, 3:58, 6:26, 8:54. Boston Blackie Booked On Suspicion Mystery, thrills and action that will give you the creeos. With CHES TER MORRIS and LYNN MERRICK. Feature Begins: Friday: 3:21, 5:49, 8:17. Saturday: 2:27, 4:55, 7:23, 9:51. Manhunt On Mystery Island, Chap. 14 9c and 30q 10 A. M. Show SATURDAY. MONDAY AND TUESDAY, June 25 and 26 now,” I ma ^ er '^ are Iece i ve h. the railroads ; pa jj on forces in Europe. of the PFC. WILLIAM W. (BILL) JOHN- : ’22nd marine regiment. “We’re going SON. son of Mr. and Mrs. Thad like a bat out of hell and we intend Johnson, Sr., was honorably dik-jto keep them on the run.” charged from the army last Wednes-! The 81-day-old campaign reached day at Fort Bragg, N. C., under the ! the mop-up stage yesterday with a point system and has returned to his marine break-through to the south home here. ' j coast on a wide front. Marines and Johnson, who had a total of 105, doughboys then knifed out in all di- points, entered the army with a Na- rections, carving up the enemy sur- tional Guard unit’in February, 1941. vivors into helpless groups of only He has spent 32 months on overseas 10 to 100 soldiers each, duty in North Africa, Italy and Sici- . Admiral Chester W. Nimitz an- ly. He was a member of a medical nounced in a communique that the unit attached to the 178th Field Ar- enemy’s last defenses were collapsing tillery. and resistance steadily was weaken- ' ing. DOROTHY LUCILE CLARK, spe- eialist, first class, of the WAVES, has reported for duty in the Hawaiian’ Islands. Miss Clark is the daughter,,; of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Clark, of this city. She was graduated from Win-1 throp college. Rock Hill, with a de gree in physical education and was: teaching at the time of her enlist-- men: in June, 1943. She was station- ! ed in Washington, D. C., when she received orders for overseas duty. will be pressed to handle the load. , i a Under the army’s program, troops a " my f dec ] are + d landing in this country will be sent; tdat every effort would be made to to disposition centers .close to the|^ ear Pacific-bound shipments embarkation ports. There, they willij! 1 ™ 11 ^ ^ est c °6st ports, East an be broken up into units hailing from I ports are expected to ac- the 1 same regions and then dispatched f on ^ rnodate , a £ y . ov e r h°ws and a so to persbnnel reception stations, where they will be furloughed after being paid and issued required clothing. After completing their furlough, they will then ;return to the reception sta tion -fpr reassignment. In detailing the movement of these troops, the military-civilian railroad load vessels being transferred from the Atlantic to the Orient through the Panama canal. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, June 27 and 28 Main St: After Dark What is today’s girl gangster like? I wouldn’t answer it, if I were you. With EDWARD ARNOLD, HUME CRONYN, SELENEA ROYLE and DAN DURYEA. , Feature begins 2:00, 4:16, 6:82, 8:48. Eady Was A Lady It’s breezy, it’s teasy, it’s easy on the eyes and light on the brain and Cognizant of the magnitude of the, With ANN MILLER joe task before it, the army was well!„ rTTTTA ,, ’ prepared for redeployment, having BESSER, WILLIAM WRIGHT and drawn up plans a searly as last Oc tober to avaieT the cluttering of East urgency committee figured that each coast ports with freight cars and soldier would make an average of four train trips during redeployment, with the total adding up to 10,000,000 for all men. In view of this huge movenhent and the ordinary military supplies after V-E day. Under the army’s • plan, European commanders were asked to designate whether supplies they requested would b needed aftei V-E day.or not.j JEFF DONNELL Feature begins 2:56, 5:12, 7:28, 9:44. CARTOON, “SHE SICK SAILOR.” 9c and 35c 10 A. M. Show WEDNESDAY. LEON ERROL has some fun with the cuties. Music, dancing arid com edy. Other good players are RICH ARD LANE, MICHAEL ST. ANGEL, and ELAINE RILEY. Feature begins 2:42, 4:55, 7:42, 9:55. COMEDY, “The Jury Goes Round ’n’ Round.” NEWS. 9c and 30c WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, June 27 and 28 The Their hearts embrace as excitement storms across the screen. And you’ll thrill to the sensational duel on horseback. With WILLARD, PARK ER, AN,IT A LOUISE, JANIS CAR TER and JOHN LODER. Feature begins 2:51, 5:06, 7:12, 9:18, Latest “THIS IS AMERICA,” “HONORABLE DISCHARGE.” Black Arrow, Chap. 11 9c and 30c traffic, the public again, has been ( If not, they could quickly be shifted | | cautioned to travel sparingly to re-1 to other points after V-E day. | Test your knowledge of your Government’s War Bond Financ ing program. The' answers to these questions, given at the end, should be kmnvn by every American. How good are you? 1. 85.million Americans have pur chased Series E War Bonds. 2. 84% of all the money ever in- KEEP COOL AND ENJOY GOOD PICTURES S-SGT. JAMES M. MEADORS, son of Mrs. Jessie Meadors of this city, ha charge from the service at Camp; stroyed. it is just the same as if the Gordon. i owner had lost the money he in- Sgt. Meadors has been in the army; vested vested in E Bonds is still invested . , . , j 1 . 113 /in them, received an honorable dis- ! 3. if a Bond is lost, stolen or de- 4. E Bonds may be cashed at any| qualified bank for their full cost any time after 60 days from date of issue.! 5. The U. S. Government’s prom ise to redeem War Bonds any time after 60 days from date of issue is just as strong as its promise to ! PVT. HOYT L. BURROUGHS/ stand back of a dollar bill, who has been at Thayer hospital in! 6. You have to hold a Bond the Nashville, Tenn., is visiting his par- full ten years tq get any interest. six years, overseas 34 months. He has received the Good Conduct rib bon. American Defense ribbon, seven battle stars, and the European Thea ter of Operations ribbon. ents, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Burroughs, of Route 2, Clinton. Pvt. Burroughs has just returned from overseas. He was wounded in Germany and for two months was a patient in an Eng- 1 lish hospital. LIEUT. PAUL LEAGUE, of the navy, spent a few days this week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. League. Lieut. League left Tuesday for Chicago, 111., where he is a naval instructor at Northwestern univer sity. Lat^r he expects to return to a ship assignment. LT. COL. THOMAS T. "TAYLOR arrived this week for a leave of ab sence until July 8 which he is spend- Highest CASH PRICE For Your USED CAR —0- COOPER MOTOR CO. West Main Street 7. The lowest-priced War Bond costs $25. .8. War Bonds are better than cash. 9. Two persons cannot own a War! Bond jointly. 10. The only reason we should bur War Bonds is to help pay for fobd. ammunition, etc., for the' armed forces. ANSWERS / O 1. True. 2. True. 3. False. War Bonds are regis tered in the names of their owners, and lost Bonds can be replaced. 4. True. 5. True. Compare wording on a Bond and a bill. 6. False. Your Bond increases in* value after one year. See the values on the back of the Bond. But you get a greater increase in value the longer you hold a Bond, up to at the end of 10 years for every you paid. 7. False. A $25 Bond costs $18.75, 8. True. They can be replaced if lost, they increase in value and they can be converted into cash in case of need. 9. False. War Bonds can be owned by two people as co-owners or as owner and beneficially/ 10. False. Your sayings invested in War Bonds will also'help to stabilize prices now and to provide for your own security in the future. JAMUP and HONEY / Present Original WSM GRAND OLE OPRY STARS IN PERSON: !l®i LIQUID' ULAN' FAST* UNCLE DAVE MACON His Last Tour V; CURLY FOX National Champion Old-time Fiddler TEXAS RUBY The Original Cow-girl Yodler THE FOX HUNTERS GABRIEL TUCKER JAMUP and HONEY * . rf » ' i .. ' ' ; V ' ■ ' " ' ’ -f - / .. A . ■ Mammoth Tent Theatre Behind Sinclair Station on, W. 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